Director/PDMR Shareholding

Barclays PLC
08 November 2007


                                                                 8 November 2007



                                  Barclays PLC



 Director/PDMR shareholding: Disclosure and Transparency Rules 3.1.4R(1)(a) and
                                  3.1.4R(1)(b)


Purchase of shares by a director

On 8 November 2007 the following Director of Barclays PLC ('the Company')
notified the Company that on 7 November 2007 he had purchased ordinary shares in
the Company as follows:

DIRECTOR    BARCLAYS PLC     PRICE PER SHARE             TOTAL             TOTAL
                  SHARES             (PENCE)        BENEFICIAL    NON-BENEFICIAL
               PURCHASED                              INTEREST          INTEREST
                                                FOLLOWING THIS    FOLLOWING THIS
                                                  NOTIFICATION      NOTIFICATION
Sir John
Sunderland        20,000               511.5            31,658                 -

Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan

The trustee of the Barclays Group Sharepurchase Plan ('the Plan'), an HM Revenue
and Customs approved all-employee share plan, informed Barclays PLC ('the
Company') on 7 November 2007 that it had on 7 November 2007 purchased, and now
held as bare trustee of the Plan, the following ordinary shares in the capital
of the Company for the following directors/Persons Discharging Managerial
Responsibility (PDMRs):

Individual directors' Sharepurchase contributions can leave a residual cash
amount. These amounts are kept by the Sharepurchase Administrator until there
are sufficient funds to buy additional shares. This is done automatically in
accordance with the Plan rules and the following purchases reflect this
reinvestment:

DIRECTOR           BARCLAYS PLC  PRICE PER SHARE           TOTAL           TOTAL
                         SHARES          (PENCE)      BENEFICIAL  NON-BENEFICIAL
                      PURCHASED                         INTEREST        INTEREST
                                                  FOLLOWING THIS  FOLLOWING THIS
                                                    NOTIFICATION    NOTIFICATION

Mr Gary Hoffman               1           512.50         431,437               -
Mr John Varley                1           512.50         470,650               -




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